According to Search Engine Marketing Firm Didit.com, Google share of search dollars spent by all clients of Didit.com keep rising and dollars spent on Yahoo keeps falling. Didit.com which reports 95% of its clients are US based, is reporting that over 70% of its clients ad dollars now go to Google while less than 20% now go to Yahoo. This difference has grown in the past 4+ years where … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2009
WSJ: As Many People Make A Living Blogging, As Practicing Law
Wall Street Journal yesterday reported that "there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers, as there are lawyers." More Americans are making their primary income from blogging than computer programmers or firefighters. According to the WSJ there are over 20 million bloggers with almost 1.7 million of them making money and 452,000 people earn their primary source of income … [Read more...]
Yahoo’s Earnings Down 78%; Gross Down 13%: 5% of Workforce to Get the Axe
Yahoo reported that its gross revenues fell 13% to $1.580 million, compared to the first quarter of 2008 Yahoo also reported, that its first-quarter net income fell to $117.6 million, or 8 cents a share, from $536.8 million, or 37 cents a share in the same period a year earlier. However, net income for the first quarter of 2008 included a non-cash gain of $401 million, or $0.29 per … [Read more...]
Pool.com Starts Accepting Pre-orders For Domain Extensions That Don’t Exist
Talk about jumping this gun. Pool.com just sent out an e-mail inviting people to place preorders on proposed gTLD's. Problem is none of these extension exist or even have been applied for. As ICANN is still setting up the rules for applications for the new gTLD's, Pool.com is accepting pre-orders on such g'TLD's … [Read more...]
Will Visual Search Engines Kill PPC?: SearchMe.com
New search engines that use visual search, rather than text based search, found in Google and Yahoo, may change the landscape for PPC and parked domains. Checkout SearchMe.com, the largest in terms of traffic of these type of search engines. Type in a search term like "luxury bedding", as see how the results are displayed. Instead of returning a page of text links with advertising on the top … [Read more...]
Bodog Gettings Its Domain Back?
According to a post on a gambling blog, theOnlineWire.com, the company that formerly ran a gambling site, known as Bodog.com, is getting its domain back. Terms of the return of the domain were not disclosed. 1st Technology, a Nevada Corporation, wound up with the domain through a $49 million dollar judgement, when Bodog failed to file response in a patent dispute. Bogdog has been … [Read more...]
Google Doesn’t Count Existing Backlinks When You Get An Expired or Drop Domain
Danny Sullivan, search engine guru, just published a post on this blog, SearchEngineLand.com, in which he got the "Official Word" from Matt Cutts of how Google treats existing links when a domain is transferred, sold or dropped: Mr. Cutts distinguished between, "domain transfers ( e.g. genuine purchases of companies) where it can make perfect sense for existing links to transfer." and the … [Read more...]